Anchor



Feb. 19, 1929. 1,702,376

R. E. BEEGLE ANCHOR Filed May 31, 1924 Patented Feb. 19, 1929. p

UNITED sTATEs RAYMOND E. BEEGLE, OF'EAST ST. LOUIS, ILLINOIS.

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Application filed May 31, 1924. Serial No. 717,080.

My invention relates to improvements in anchors; more especially to anchors for the purpose of preventing checking and split- V ting of timber. My device is especially adapted for use as an anti-checking device. in

railroad cross-ties. y

One of the objects of myinvention is to provide a reinforcing device which is scientifically adapted to provide the maximum strengthening effect, with a minimum 'of material, and which can be manufactured at low cost and without expensive equipment.

A- further object is toprovide a metal anchor of such design vthat each of its comto the timber reinforced, that usual lines of weakness in the timber are strengthened,- and the usual lines of cleavage in cross ties, are best eliminated, or rendered of no consequence. I

A. further object of this invention 1s to provide a timber anchor, .which on being driven into the timber, will tend to draw together the different portions of the timber into which it is placed. y w

A further object is to provide an article of the described class which will, in, quantity, nest together conveniently,` fit snugly together in any form of container, and whlch will permit easy and certain removal one at a time. The trade at present experiences great difficulty and labor loss in the wellknown tendency of existing devices to tangle and interlock when mingled in a container, thus making separation of individual units a matter of great difficulty. The easy and certain removal of single units is of obvious advantage When mechanical'driving equipment is employed.

F urther objects and advantages of my .device will appear from the drawings and the following detailed description thereof.

Although my invention consists largely in the construction and arrangement of parts hereinafter described and particularly pointed out in the claims, yet I do not limit my invention to the precise'form or construction of parts shown or the vseveral parts thereoffiiiasniuchras various alterations maybe made without changing the scope of my invention. V

In the drawings7 Fig. 1 represents a plan view of an approved form of my device; Fig. 2 is a perspective view of Fig. 1; and Fig. 3 is a sectional end view thereof.

ponent parts will be so situated with respect Referring by letters to the drawings, (a) represents a preferred form of bodyV portion. This and other parts of the anchor are preferably formed from a strip of fiat metal stock, iron or steel being preferred The an-. `chor faces (b) are preferably formed substantially at right angles to the body portion (a), and project in opposite directions from theplane of the body portion, as shown. Each of the anchor faces (b) ispreferably substantially shorter than the body portion (a). Obviously the body portion (a) serves as a connecting element ormeans between the anchor faces (o). I prefer to ef-:tend the anchor faces in such a way as to form terminal anchors, indicated by (o). Each of the terminal anchors (c) preferably projects outwardly, at about a right angle to its respective anchorface (b), as shown,

the result being that the terminal anchorsl (c) extend in opposite directions away from the anchor faces (o), that is in a direction away from a plane substantially at right angles to the plane of the body portion (a).

I prefer that terminal anchors (o) shall be substantially shorter than the anchor faces I regard my terminal anchors (o), disposed substantially as shown, to be of vital importance. They serve as auxiliary means lwhereby the holding and closing power of the main anchor is greatly increased.

One edge of the anchor, over its entire a vohors disclose an initial advantage in that they are certainly and easily separable from each other ini a common container of any form. Due Ato their construction they will nest readily without interlocking. The parts of the anchor have been by experiment so proportioned and disposed that any usual radial splits orwindshakes found in cross-ties are effectively closed and any further tendency to split along usual lines of cleavage is prevented. It will be noted that the position of the anchor with respect to the timber may be Varied according to the form of the particular piece of timber and With regard for any developed tendency to splitting.

What I claim is:

1. A re-inforcing anchor formed from a metal strip beveled on one edge and oppositely bent near each end to form approximately right-angled anchor facos Whose terminals are bent outwardly to form substantially right-angled terminal anchors,

2. In a reinforcng anchor, a body portion lyng in a plane and having an anchor face at each end thereof, said anchor faces being snbstantially shorter than said body portion and projecting from'opposite sides of the plane thereof7 and an out-Wardly projeeting terminal anchor at the free end of each of said anchor faces, said terminal anchors being; substantially parallel to the plane of said body portion.

3. In a reinforoing anchor, a body portion lyng in a plane, an anchor face at each end thereof, said anchor faces projeotng from opposite sides of the plane of said body portion, said body portion being substantially longer than said anchor faces, and an out- Wardly projecting` terminal anchor at the free end of each of said anchor faces and substantially at right angles to the plane of their respective anchor faces.

4:. In a reinforcing anchor, a substantially straight body portion lying in a plane, a substantially straight anehor face at each end of the body portion and Snbstantially at right anel-es thereto, said anchor faces projecting from opposite sides of the plane of said body portion and being Substantially shorter than said body portion, and a substantially straight terminal anchor projecting' outwardly from the free end of each of said anchor faces and at Substantially right angles thei'eto, said terminal anchors being much shorter than their respective anchor faces.

RAYMOND E. BEEGLE. 

